A 6th-century poem and traditional reading primer used for children's education, consisting of exactly one thousand non-repeating characters arranged in four-character rhyming lines.

Various historical calligraphy works based on the Thousand Character Classic text, most notably the copies and interpretations by masters such as 王羲之 wáng​xī​zhī, 智永 zhì​yǒng, and 怀素 huái​sù.

A general term used to describe a short, pithy, and well-written essay.